It wasn’t close, with the New Democracy party storming to victory – winning 158 of 300 seats in the country’s legislature.

The end for Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ populist government was forecast back in May when his Syriza party lost by more than 9 percentage points in the European parliament vote, and was nearly shut out in a host of regional ballots. That prompted Tsipras to call a snap election. Fast forward to Monday when Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in as Greece’s new prime minister.